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No need for a battletome, if allegiance abilities exist for a faction army, you must use them. The point is, in case of Age of Sigmar there aren't any Allegiance Abilities in the White Dwarf. Allegiance was basicly the wrong term in the title (something like that was only printed in case of Warhammer 40k) The rules in White Dwarf are everytime Warscroll Battalions for a specific army and sometimes a named hero. In those cases the FAQ is right. Syll'Esske's host is not an Allegiance, it is a warscroll Battalion. It's true. Allegiance Abilities never had a Pitched Battle Profile, so they are not affected by the Generals Handbook at all, legion of grief, knights of the empty throne can be played normally.

This is basicly GW official Answer in the Generals Handbook 2020 FAQ

Well, how does I feel about AoS. First of, my last Game was actually 2017 (so I actually never prayed the Second Edition Rules) and I have only played three times in the old Edition. And still I like the game. I feel like a historian (or Sigmars Librarian) when I read the lore of Battletomes or Stories and try to find the connections (in fact that is the point why I put so much work into a german Fandom Wiki to give others the chance to find a way into the lore). And I like tree amount of creative choices I have in that lore (like the Brotherhood of Korhil, the Faithful of Eloni (including the Maiden Guard and the Tribefollowers of Alarielle) or the Shadow Guild). All those would basicly never had room in WHFB.

The Wyldwood has the rule "Overgrown Wilderness", so it blocks line of sight if you must measure through it, as long as neither the attacker nor the target has the fly rule. And this regardless if you can physically see the model behind it or not. The Big House or Tower would block line of sight too (actually against fliers as well) as long as you can't see the model behind, but if you see something of it, it isn't blocked.

Here is the answer for your Question from the Generals Handbook 2020 FAQ that was released today.

Most of them were in either in the Grand Alliance Books or the compendium PDF (in rear cases like Dark elves, they removed the PDF but still have points in the Legendslist).

There is a FAQ for that Question. Corerule FAQ Page 3 So 1 Hit would turn into 2 Mortal wounds + you get an additional hit to roll to wound for the ability that your Attack counts as two hits.

There are hopefully some AoS Shortstories in "The Hammer and the Eagle". Really hope for Gotrek - "The Neverspike" because it is epub only at the moment. At least there are two new AoS epub stories in august with Gotrek "Svardheim" and Neferata "The Threshold". It will be interesting as well if we will get "Warhammer Crime" Stories in the future as well.

No, it monstrous mount wouldn't double the mortal wounds of black fangs. There is a ruling in the Core FAQ that all abilities that double the value or add something to it are threated separatly. So it would be 2 + D3 not D3x2 . The Scuttleboss is a very weird one in case of the spider venom rule, most likely because they call the weapon "Envenomed Spear" All other units with "Spider venom" only have the ability on the Spiders attacks. Only the Scuttle Boss has it on the models attacks. Keep in mind that the Black Fang can only be used on the Envenomed Spear, because normally Mounts wouldn't be affected by Command Traits or Artefacts. Monstrous Mount is a special case because it explicably modifies an Ability used by the Spider.

I think the 140 in case of the Legions of Nagash is an Error in the Book. My points are the folloging Both Allegiances use the same Warscroll, and there was never a case where the same Warscroll was used in multiple factions. It's the only unit where it is the case (Arkhan the Black, Nagash and the Morghasts are in the Army of the Ossiarch Bonereapers as well and they have the same price their. The same we can say about Spirit Hosts, Tomb Banshees or Cairn Wraiths This is basicly a case for the FAQ Team, to correct it with an Errata. Second, Legions of Nagash is in a rare situation, that they can ally units that are in their own allegiance as well. The Problem is, if you ally them they can't use the Allegiance Abilities on them.

I think, the closest thing to bretonia was the mentioning of a knightly order called "Sons of Breton" in @JReynolds Story Spear of Shadows. The question is, would it make sense to include a basicly historic faction as an additional human faction or would it make more sense if the Freeguild would have additional units, that Outriders, Pistoliers, Demigryph Knights and Freeguild General aren't the only cavalry units. Sadly GW removed the archers as well from the Freeguild with Cities of Sigmar. Edit: And the compendium List is still playable and has points with the Generals Handbook 2020 in the legends section (it only lacks the lore)

The Chalice of Ushoran is triggered by the active player. This is stated in the Errata: Were the Ghouls the only unit that could return models, because in your opponents turn your opponent choses which units heal wounds or get Models back. He is actually only resticted to units that can be healed or can return slain models. So the Chalice is definetly a player ability used by the active player while looking who controlls an objective is a game ability.

I think if something get's overridden GW will state it. We will see it with the Matched Play Rules and Meeting Engagements as well as you said with the Realmrules for Matched Play. Pitched Battles (2019) for example states the following below the Title: As long as there is not such a text or the Errata states that you can't use the rules any more the mercenary rules will stay active. The only thing that could happen is that some of the Mercenary Companies are not playable anymore if the units don't have a Matched Play Profile in the new book.

If it only says "moves" it means all moves. In othercases it would specify "normal move", "charge move", "pile in move".

They won't be playable in Matched Play anymore. In Open and Narrative Play the Malign Sorceries Artefacts are still usable.

Then I have interpreted to much into that part of the Idoneth Battletome: I mean the "split into factions" could have been the splitting into the elementary Aspects. I will most likely get the box with my Battletome today, so I have the chance to work my way through the Background.

The funny thing is, that they included "Skies of Slaughter" in the book but not the rules for Skirmish last year (most likely because of Warcry). I know that there was a 40k Version of Skies of Slaughter before that had 2 Player Boxes as well, but I never have seen someone talking about "Skies of Slaughter" after the White Dwarf Release and not a single Battlereport on Youtube for it. Okay it's more a lore thing, but it is not completly shoehorned. Each faction basicly prays to their own god, but all are aspects of Gorkamorka For Moonclan Grots it is the Bad Moon for Spiderfang Grots the Spider-god For Mawtribe Ogors its the Great Beast that Consumes the World For Beastclaw Raiders its the Hungering Predator For Firebellies it the Sun-Eater The only once that most likly play to Gorkamorka (or Gork/Mork), it's most likely the Orruks. Looking at the Gloomspite Gitz Battletome the connection between the Factions is, that all of them want to destroy bastions and civilisation to bring the realms to a natural primitive state, but they would basicly fight each other as well because they all think different how this state should look like. Strange with the alliances is, that when we look at the lore, that their are Ogors in Free Cities (Spear of Shadows) or Chaos Armies (The Black Pyramid) or several cases where Humans follow Nagash, have their own Warrior Priests and living soldiers fighting together with the dead, which isn't possible at least with Matched Play rules. I think GW had stated that a new Generals Handbook doesn't make the once before obsolete. As long as they doesn't state in an Errata or other publication that you can't use the mercenary rules anymore you can use those of the GH2019. In other cases the GH would be thicker every year because they would print the same stuff every year. And than nobody would buy the new Book when it would be the old book with some included Errata.

In case of the Lumineth and the Deepkin I'm still wondering. Were the Idoneth Deepkin really a project on their own and Teclis started the Lumineth Realmlords after their retreat, or if the Idoneth Deepkin are basicly the Water-Aspect of the Lumineth Realmlords. The later would acutally make more sence. There was no mentioning in the battletome, wasn't it?

Do you use Apple or Android? I use the Android Version and I have the sentence. Maybe something went wrong with the file.

I have to see where the 5-10k was. There was at least the mentioning that 1 Warrior Chamber has up to 500 Members, others between 150-300. We have at least about 40 Stormhosts and each Stormhost has at least one chamber, with some having 20 or more known chambers (Hammers of Sigmar have at least 20 known Chambers, the Celestial Vindicators had 18 Lord Celestants in a Story (so there should be a combination of 18 Warrior/Harbinger/Exemplar Chambers, maybe later someone switched to a Extremis Chamber. Aqshy is not really captured by Sigmar. He closed the Gate to the Eightpoints, but when we look at the Map of the Great Parch in the Slaves to Darkness Battletome, it actually looks like that except for Hammerhal Aqshy, Anvilguard , Hallowheart, Fort Denst, Fort Ignis and Vandium most of the Terrain is still captured by chaos. They have build there Stormkeeps so they can bring troops to attack chaos but not much more.

I think the mainproblem of Season of War - Firestorm is the Armystrength. There was actually a Errata that changed the rule, so the Firestorm Armies can only be used with the Grand Alliance: Your Stormcast Eternals of Anvilguard would use the Allegiance of Grand Alliance Order + the rule of the City in the campaign book. You would get nothing from the Stormcast Eternals Allegiance.

At least in germany it was a big topic that in April and May that companies that give dividents shouldn't get government bailouts. I don't know if it was carried out that way in the end

I'm not sure if it is correct but I have read in another thread that GW can't pay dividents on shares or make bonus payment as long as they have furlough payments from the goverment. So paying back the furlough payments is most likely an act for their shareholders.

Since the Generals Handbook 2019 page 57 each Hero basicly has a Command Ability for either rerolling to Hit rolls of 1 in the shooting phase or the combat phase. Maybe this is what @Dankboss means. At least if the GH2020 doesn't remove the Command Abilities.

With the implication that Soulbound will have a german translation, maybe. But fo the "soon", isn't the release for the soulbound preorders in the 4th quarter of this year?